LEDZ is taking over HMI lighting with high power and perfect color temp.
An amazing new lighting solution that I have become an instant fan of is from a company called LEDZ. They make LED based lights that are perfect 5500k Daylight color temperature, dimmable, and are as powerful as HMIs. And because they’re LED, they’re ultra-cool operating, so you don't burn your hands or melt your actors. Their largest available light, the Brute 16, is equivalent to a 200w HMI, which is amazing. You can get it with a circular beam spread or a rectangular spread, which seems to come in pretty handy. The Brute 16 is a few thousand dollars (between 3 and 5 depending on where you are in the world) but lasts a lifetime....without ever changing a bulb. For a 200w HMI to equal the life of a Brute 16, you will spend $55000 in globes. Food for thought. LEDZ is soon to release the Brute 30, equivalent to a 575w HMI, and it will be the first in the world. If you want to see an example of what these lights look like, here is a link to a commercial for the lights, lit entirely by the lights.
As you can see, NAB held several surprises for those of us with smaller pocketbooks. While that may be so, I am still looking for someone to buy one of my kidneys so I can afford everything on my list this year. Any takers?
A.J. Wedding is a graduate of Western Michigan University and has won festival awards for his first feature film, "Pop Fiction". As a writer/director, he has won several awards for his short films, and recently garnered worldwide distribution for a feature film titled “The Disappearance of Jenna Matheson” releasing this year. His hit web series, “Infamous” created an instant fanbase, and spawned interest from networks to create a tv series based on it. A.J. currently works with The Production Green, directing and editing commercials as well as developing his next feature film, "Junior Crew."
